On 2024-02-22, Aidan Kehoe <
[email protected]> wrote:
One of the go-to examples is that the Persian word بد /bæd/ is identical in
sound and in meaning to the English word bad, despite being unrelated.
And as Etymonline mentions at its entry for "bad":
Among other coincidental matches with English are Korean _mani_
"many," Chinese _pei_ "pay," Nahuatl (Aztecan) _huel_ "well,"
Maya _hol_ "hole."
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber
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